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20 | <H1><a name="appendixA">Appendix: Utility Programs</a></H1> | |
21 | ||
22 | <P>This appendix describes the additional utility programs that | |
23 | are included in the MHonArc distribution. The utility programs | |
24 | are installed with <b>mhonarc</b> during the installation process. | |
25 | </P> | |
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28 | <ul> | |
29 | <li><a href="#mha-dbedit">mha-dbedit</a> | |
30 | <li><a href="#mha-dbrecover">mha-dbrecover</a> | |
31 | <ul> | |
32 | <li><small><a href="#mha-dbrecover-options">Additional Options</a></small> | |
33 | </ul> | |
34 | <li><a href="#mha-decode">mha-decode</a> | |
35 | <ul> | |
36 | <li><small><a href="#mha-decode-options">Additional Options</a></small> | |
37 | <li><small><a href="#mha-decode-examples">Examples</a></small> | |
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42 | <hr> | |
43 | <H2><a name="mha-dbedit">mha-dbedit</a></H2> | |
44 | ||
45 | <P><b>mha-dbedit</b> allows modifications to be made to an archive | |
46 | database without regenerating any archive pages. | |
47 | </P> | |
48 | ||
49 | <p>Typical usage: | |
50 | </p> | |
51 | <pre> | |
52 | shell> <b>mha-dbedit -rcfile <var>res.mrc</var> -outdir <var>/path/to/archive</var></b> | |
53 | </pre> | |
54 | ||
55 | <hr> | |
56 | <H2><a name="mha-dbrecover">mha-dbrecover</a></H2> | |
57 | ||
58 | <P><b>mha-dbrecover</b> recreates an archive database from the individual | |
59 | message pages. This program is useful if an archive database gets | |
60 | corrupted, or accidentally deleted. | |
61 | </P> | |
62 | ||
63 | <p>Typical usage: | |
64 | </p> | |
65 | <pre> | |
66 | shell> <b>mha-dbrecover -outdir <var>/path/to/archive</var></b> | |
67 | </pre> | |
68 | ||
69 | <p>If the archive used different resource settings from the defaults | |
70 | for controling filenames, then you must specify those settings when | |
71 | invoking <b>mha-dbrecover</b>. For example, if you are using | |
72 | "<tt>shtml</tt>" for <a href="resources/htmlext.html">HTMLEXT</a>, | |
73 | then you should invoke <b>mha-dbrecover</b> like the following: | |
74 | </p> | |
75 | <pre> | |
76 | shell> <b>mha-dbrecover -htmlext shtml -outdir <var>/path/to/archive</var></b> | |
77 | </pre> | |
78 | ||
79 | <p><b>mha-dbrecover</b> will only recreate non-layout message related data. | |
80 | If the archive had resource settings that were different than the | |
81 | the defaults, then those resource settings must be specified when | |
82 | invoking <b>mha-dbrecover</b>. For example: | |
83 | </p> | |
84 | <pre> | |
85 | shell> <b>mha-dbrecover -rcfile <var>res.mrc</var> -outdir <var>/path/to/archive</var></b> | |
86 | </pre> | |
87 | ||
88 | <h3><a name="mha-dbrecover-options">Additional Options</a></h3> | |
89 | ||
90 | <p><b>mha-dbrecover</b> supports the additional command-line options: | |
91 | </p> | |
92 | ||
93 | <dl> | |
94 | <dt><tt>-dbr-startnum <var>#</var></tt></dt> | |
95 | <dd>The starting message number to recover data from. This option is | |
96 | useful if you have many message files in a directory, but you only | |
97 | want to recover a subset of the files. | |
98 | If this option is not specified, the starting number is 0. | |
99 | </dd> | |
100 | </dl> | |
101 | <dl> | |
102 | <dt><tt>-dbr-endnum <var>#</var></tt></dt> | |
103 | <dd>The ending message number to recover data from. This option is | |
104 | useful if you have many message files in a directory, but you only | |
105 | want to recover a subset of the files. | |
106 | If this option is not specified, all messages starting from | |
107 | <tt>-dbr-startnum</tt> will be recovered. | |
108 | </dd> | |
109 | </dl> | |
110 | ||
111 | <p>Using the number range options are typically not needed, but may | |
112 | be useful if the archive is maintained with a | |
113 | <a href="resources/maxsize.html">MAXSIZE</a> (or | |
114 | <a href="resources/expireage.html">EXPIREAGE</a>), | |
115 | and | |
116 | <a href="resources/keeponrmm.html">KEEPONRMM</a> is active. The | |
117 | message number range options will allow you to minimize recovering | |
118 | processing by having <b>mha-dbrecover</b> skip messaages that will | |
119 | be dropped from the database due to the | |
120 | <a href="resources/maxsize.html">MAXSIZE</a>, | |
121 | or <a href="resources/expireage.html">EXPIREAGE</a>, | |
122 | setting. | |
123 | </p> | |
124 | <p>For example, say you have an archive directory with 1000 message | |
125 | pages numbered 0 through 999, and the maximum size of the archive | |
126 | is 200. The following command will make recovering more efficient | |
127 | by skipping the first 800 messages since they will be dropped from | |
128 | the database anyway: | |
129 | </p> | |
130 | <pre> | |
131 | shell> <b>mha-dbrecover -dbr-startnum 800 -outdir <var>/path/to/archive</var></b> | |
132 | </pre> | |
133 | ||
134 | <table border=0 cellpadding=4> | |
135 | <tr valign=top> | |
136 | <td><strong>NOTE</strong></td> | |
137 | <td><p>It is possible that message number order may not exactly match | |
138 | date order. You may want to increase the number range to take in | |
139 | account of possible anomolies where message number order may vary from | |
140 | message date order. | |
141 | </p> | |
142 | </td> | |
143 | </tr> | |
144 | </table> | |
145 | ||
146 | <hr> | |
147 | <H2><a name="mha-decode">mha-decode</a></H2> | |
148 | ||
149 | <P><b>mha-decode</b> is a utility program unrelated to MHonArc archives. | |
150 | <b>mha-decode</b> provides basic MIME decoding capabilites for | |
151 | messages. | |
152 | </P> | |
153 | <p>If given mail folders as input, all messages within in the mail | |
154 | folders will be decoded. All message parts are written to files. If a | |
155 | filename is specified for a message part, that filename will be used | |
156 | when writing the part to a file. If no filename is specified in the | |
157 | message, a unique name will be used based upon the content-type of | |
158 | the message part. | |
159 | </p> | |
160 | <p>A single message can be decoded by using the <tt>-single</tt> option. | |
161 | </p> | |
162 | ||
163 | Only MHonArc options that affect parsing of mail folders are applicable | |
164 | for <b>mha-decode</b>. The following options are applicable: | |
165 | <tt>-conlen</tt>, | |
166 | <tt>-mhpattern</tt>, | |
167 | <tt>-msgsep</tt>, | |
168 | <tt>-noconlen</tt>, | |
169 | <tt>-outdir</tt>, | |
170 | <tt>-perlinc</tt>, | |
171 | <tt>-rcfile</tt>, | |
172 | <tt>-single</tt>, | |
173 | <tt>-umask</tt>. | |
174 | ||
175 | <h3><a name="mha-decode-options">Additional Options</a></h3> | |
176 | ||
177 | <p><b>mha-decode</b> supports the additional command-line options: | |
178 | </p> | |
179 | ||
180 | <dl> | |
181 | <dt><tt>-dcd-digest</tt></dt> | |
182 | <dd>Do not parse message/rfc822 and message/news attachments. | |
183 | Normally, <b>mha-decode</b> will recursively parse message | |
184 | attachments and decode any parts contained within. With this | |
185 | option, any message attachment encountered will be saved | |
186 | intact. | |
187 | </dd> | |
188 | </dl> | |
189 | ||
190 | <h3><a name="mha-decode-examples">Examples</a></h3> | |
191 | ||
192 | <p>Basic usage: | |
193 | </p> | |
194 | <pre> | |
195 | shell> <b>mha-decode inbox</b> | |
196 | </pre> | |
197 | <p>Use <tt>-outdir</tt> to have all decoded data placed into a | |
198 | separate directory: | |
199 | </p> | |
200 | <pre> | |
201 | shell> <b>mha-decode -outdir <var>/var/tmp</var> inbox</b> | |
202 | </pre> | |
203 | <p>And to decode a single message:</p> | |
204 | <pre> | |
205 | shell> <b>mha-decode -single <var>msg.822</var></b> | |
206 | </pre> | |
207 | <p>or from standard input:</p> | |
208 | <pre> | |
209 | shell> <b><var>some_program</var> | mha-decode -single</b> | |
210 | </pre> | |
211 | <p>Save out attached messages and then pass them into MHonArc | |
212 | to be added to a archive: | |
213 | </p> | |
214 | <pre> | |
215 | shell> <b>mha-decode -dcd-digest -single <var>digest</var></b> | |
216 | shell> <b>mhonarc -outdir <var>/path/to/archive</var> -mhpattern '^822.*\.822$' .</b> | |
217 | </pre> | |
218 | <p><b>Note:</b> There is a trailing dot, '<tt>.</tt>', at the end of the | |
219 | called to <b>mhonarc</b> to tell <b>mhonarc</b> to process the | |
220 | current working directory. | |
221 | </p> | |
222 | <p><b>Note:</b> You may need to reset the | |
223 | <a href="resources/mhpattern.html">MHPATTERN</a> resource if normal | |
224 | input into the archive is from MH-style mail folders. | |
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